Officer, it was the oddest thing. That barrier suddenly swerved into my path

Uh-oh, bad break Rep. Kennedy, the TV stations have already created a logo for this.

careens down a Washington street in a Mustang at a high rate of speed, lights off, narrowly misses a police cruiser and then crashes into a barrier. Upon exiting the vehicle, Kennedy is ”staggering” and his speech is slurred, according to the first officer on the scene. But as he is about to administer a sobriety test, two sergeants appear and order him off the case. This raises an obvious question — He’s from Rhode Island? . . .

The Suns surprise the Lakers by winning game six in overtime, sending the playoff series back to Phoenix, and utterly crushing fans who have lived in Los Angeles all their lives. Both of them . . .

Laker star Kobe Bryant put the fumbled opportunity in perspective after the game. ”When you go to the bathroom, you can’t stand there and look at what you dropped. At some point you’ve got to flush.” . . .

Meanwhile, the Suns’ Raja Bell will return for Saturday’s seventh game. When Bell was suspended for clotheslining Bryant he said has sorry he lost his temper but that Bryant was and ”arrogant and pompous” person. Your point? . . .

SF Weekly is reporting that KRON-TV has changed its address, adding the numbers 552 to 1001 Van Ness on the advice of an astro-numerologist (which coincidently, was my major in college.) Station executive Pat Patton brought in the astrologer because of concern that 1001 was a ”bad” number. Scoff if you will, but bad numbers can definitely have an effect on a TV station. Just check out KRON’s ratings . . .

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is heckled at a speech he gave in Atlanta. A former high-ranking CIA official repeatedly accused Rumsfeld of lying to support the war in Iraq. The CIA? How’d they find him? . . .